John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc >>> there are there little squares or cryptic <$%^> thingees. I guess >>> that there's something I've missed somewhere... >>> >>> What have/haven't I done? >> >> On the assumption that you ran into some highlighting or underlining >> markup, then you might try running your documents through a smart >> pager that's able to do something reasonable with such things. >> Try this: >> export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/less [snip] > > I don't think that's the problem, less is my PAGER, and I know about zcat. > Most of the text is quite readable. The little squares are often where I'd > expect an apostrophe to be, and some of the funny codes are <B7> for > example. It looks like a bit of hex.
You're reading an ISO-8859-1 (8-bit) document with `less' in it's 7-bit mode. You can do one of two things -- 1. $ export LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1 $ less <filename> 2. $ less -r <filename> The first is the preferred solution, but requires you to have set up all the locale data correctly. The second just punts the 8-bit char to your display. In either case, your display has to support 8-bit characters, and show them meaningfully. `xterm' can handle it. I haven't checked the console (I'm sitting on a Solaris box right now) - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash